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Author: John Buchan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 245
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The story of Midwinter emerges from a mysterious bundle of centuries old documents which the new senior partner of a renowned law firm found clearing the archives. The origins of the papers are obscure, but the intrigued narrator believes that they hint at James Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson. The manuscripts and letters tell of the adventures of Captain Alastair Maclean during the time of the Jacobite rising in winter 1745/46. He has recently crossed the channel from France where he has been living in exile with Charles Edward Stuart aka Bonnie Prince Charlie and his entourage. The Prince is preparing his army's march to London and Captain Maclean is on his way to join him with important news. Given the situation he avoids all main roads and before soon he gets lost in the English country. When he hears voices, he first wants to turn away from them, but he needs help to get back on his way and one of the voices is sharp with pain. He finds a boy in the hands of a keeper about to beat him up for poaching and saves him from his tormentor. The boy leads the Scotsman to the camp of the Spoonbills where he meets a mysterious, violin playing man who is known only as Midwinter and who is revered almost like a king. Before Captain Maclean leaves the next morning, Midwinter assures him that he can turn to the Spoonbills for help whenever he needs it. And indeed, they will rescue him several times, once even from certain death, because he gets into the way of the traitors Nicholas Kyd and Sir John Norreys scheming to make their fortune. On the road he finds a loyal companion in Samuel Johnson chasing after his young lady Claudia Grevel who has eloped with Sir John Norreys and married him. When the Scotsman meets her, he falls in love with her despite all. The adventures of Alastair Maclean and Samuel Johnson continue in pursuit after and hiding from the traitors... with the help of wise and calm Midwinter.
Author: John Buchan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
The story of Midwinter emerges from a mysterious bundle of centuries old documents which the new senior partner of a renowned law firm found clearing the archives. The origins of the papers are obscure, but the intrigued narrator believes that they hint at James Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson. The manuscripts and letters tell of the adventures of Captain Alastair Maclean during the time of the Jacobite rising in winter 1745/46. He has recently crossed the channel from France where he has been living in exile with Charles Edward Stuart aka Bonnie Prince Charlie and his entourage. The Prince is preparing his army's march to London and Captain Maclean is on his way to join him with important news. Given the situation he avoids all main roads and before soon he gets lost in the English country. When he hears voices, he first wants to turn away from them, but he needs help to get back on his way and one of the voices is sharp with pain. He finds a boy in the hands of a keeper about to beat him up for poaching and saves him from his tormentor. The boy leads the Scotsman to the camp of the Spoonbills where he meets a mysterious, violin playing man who is known only as Midwinter and who is revered almost like a king. Before Captain Maclean leaves the next morning, Midwinter assures him that he can turn to the Spoonbills for help whenever he needs it. And indeed, they will rescue him several times, once even from certain death, because he gets into the way of the traitors Nicholas Kyd and Sir John Norreys scheming to make their fortune. On the road he finds a loyal companion in Samuel Johnson chasing after his young lady Claudia Grevel who has eloped with Sir John Norreys and married him. When the Scotsman meets her, he falls in love with her despite all. The adventures of Alastair Maclean and Samuel Johnson continue in pursuit after and hiding from the traitors... with the help of wise and calm Midwinter.
Author: Bernadette Mayer Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811214063 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 130
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Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, in Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day", as Alice Notley notes, "is an epic poem about a daily routine". In six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day -- morning, afternoon, evening, night -- to dreams again: "a plain introduction to modes of love and reason, / Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season / Now I've said this love it's all I can remember / Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December".
Author: Jessica Traynor Publisher: ISBN: 9781780376066 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 96
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These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynor's third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland's Dedalus Press, and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Author: Michael J. Crawley Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780470515068 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 953
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The high-level language of R is recognized as one of the mostpowerful and flexible statistical software environments, and israpidly becoming the standard setting for quantitative analysis,statistics and graphics. R provides free access to unrivalledcoverage and cutting-edge applications, enabling the user to applynumerous statistical methods ranging from simple regression to timeseries or multivariate analysis. Building on the success of the author’s bestsellingStatistics: An Introduction using R, The R Book ispacked with worked examples, providing an all inclusive guide to R,ideal for novice and more accomplished users alike. The bookassumes no background in statistics or computing and introduces theadvantages of the R environment, detailing its applications in awide range of disciplines. Provides the first comprehensive reference manual for the Rlanguage, including practical guidance and full coverage of thegraphics facilities. Introduces all the statistical models covered by R, beginningwith simple classical tests such as chi-square and t-test. Proceeds to examine more advance methods, from regression andanalysis of variance, through to generalized linear models,generalized mixed models, time series, spatial statistics,multivariate statistics and much more. The R Book is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates andprofessionals in science, engineering and medicine. It is alsoideal for students and professionals in statistics, economics,geography and the social sciences.
Author: Renata Adler Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590176340 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 169
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A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. “What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland. Composed in the style of Renata Adler’s celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journalist’s eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, Pitch Dark is a bold and astonishing work of art.
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 210
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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a romance. Some critics, among them W. W. Lawrence (Lawrence, 9-13), consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
Author: Marcus Sedgwick Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1596438029 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined—this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice. An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling novel all take place on the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed where a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What binds these stories together? What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful enough to break the cycle of midwinterblood? From award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick comes a book about passion and preservation and ultimately an exploration of the bounds of love. This title has Common Core connections. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
Author: Amy Liptrot Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393609006 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
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“It’s wild writing: sexy, unguarded, raw, and ardent … highly recommended.”—The Millions After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney’s wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her. A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller New Statesman Book of the Year
Author: Katharine Smyth Publisher: Crown ISBN: 1524760641 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favorite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth’s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf’s Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel—and crafts an elegant reminder of literature’s ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. Praise for All the Lives We Ever Lived “This searching memoir pays homage to To the Lighthouse, while recounting the author’s fraught relationship with her beloved father, a vibrant figure afflicted with alcoholism and cancer. . . . Smyth’s writing is evocative and incisive.”—The New Yorker “Like H Is for Hawk, Smyth’s book is a memoir that’s not quite a memoir, using Woolf, and her obsession with Woolf, as a springboard to tell the story of her father’s vivid life and sad demise due to alcoholism and cancer. . . . An experiment in twenty-first century introspection that feels rooted in a modernist tradition and bracingly fresh.”—Vogue “Deeply moving – part memoir, part literary criticism, part outpouring of longing and grief… This is a beautiful book about the wildness of mortal life, and the tenuous consolations of art.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her love for her father, his profound alcoholism and the unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life.”—Time
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